Sorry, Brendan, we were trying to humor you with this one, but we're not in a terribly whimsical mood today. Spoiler alert: Well & Goode is actually the creative brainchild of Benson and fellow Nashvillian Mark Watrous (Gosling, Loudermilk).

The pair's debut single includes two songs, “Spray Tan” and “Two Birds," and you can order a copy on Benson's newly revamped website.

Benson and Watrous just wrapped up a tour of Ireland. Benson has a hometown show at Exit/In with the Posies on November 19.

Because we're not total sticks in the mud, we're sharing Well & Goode's amusing bio after the jump:

Upton O. Goode hails from Ireland, but is considered by some to be a "returned empty" after having left the country during the great Guinness drought, only to return when the difference between drought and draught had been explained to him. Manitoba native Midas Well moved to Ireland after meeting Upton at a "cold yoga" retreat in Antarctica.

"I remember spotting Midas off in a corner practically dead from frostbite, shivering like a junkie going cold turkey. With great haste, I took him into my arms and we busted out of there. It took us four days to reach the bus stop. When your only source of heat is another man's body, you become friends very quickly."

...When Brendan was planning the Irish tour, Well & Goode wrote him exactly twenty-six emails, eleven text messages, and left three rather disturbing life-threatening voicemails, and finally two suicide notes, all in the span of twenty-four hours. "I happened to be spending time with family in a remote part of Tennessee without any cellular service. So, when I returned home I was both amused and horrified to discover what had transpired while I was away." Needless to say, Well & Goode were not invited on the tour, but perhaps out of pity, Brendan and Mark offered to help with their single as a trial run as long as they were never in the same room. Being touched by how much they wanted to work with him, but put off by the nature of the demanding emails, Brendan thought it would be a good idea to maintain a very long distance work relationship with them...and never to meet them.

Surprisingly, it was a huge success and at the record launch party at The Cheesecake Factory, the four were formally introduced. All was forgotten and they have since been seen frequently at The Cheesecake Factory. They're still hopeful to get into a couple of the Irish dates in September but they've been instructed that busking out front will NOT be tolerated.